The musical contains many songs that became popular standards, including “Everything’s Coming up Roses“, “Together (Wherever We Go)“, “Small World”, “Some People”, “Let Me Entertain You”, “All I Need Is the Girl”, and “Rose’s Turn”. It is frequently considered one of the crowning achievements of the mid-20th century’s conventional musical theatre art form, often called the “book musical“.

Gypsy has been referred to as the greatest American musical by numerous critics and writers and the character of Rose as “one of the few truly complex characters in the American musical….”